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Ahsan H Mansur. | UNB photo

Eminent economist Ahsan H Mansur is likely to be the next governor of Bangladesh Bank according to officials familiar with the development on Tuesday.

The interim government has decided to appoint a new head of the central bank after governor Abdur Rouf Talukder resigned on August 9 in the wake of the fall of Awami League regime amid mass movement.


Mansur, 72, is currently the executive director of the Policy Research Institute, a think tank.

Earlier, he held various important positions at the International Monetary Fund. He is well known as an analyst of the country鈥檚 financial sector.